Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.